Hugh B. Paterson Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft@cowtown.net

Commemorative Biographical Record of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa, and
Lafayette Counties, Wisconsin
J. H. Beers, 1901
Pages 5-6

HUGH B. PATERSON, one of the pioneers of Grant county, was born in the State of 
New York, at Whitehall, April 8, 1787, a son of George Paterson.

In 1811 our subject was united in marriage to Miss Charlotte Gilmore, a native 
of Vermont, where she was born Nov. 14, 1790, and after marriage the young 
couple settled down to domestic life in Chautauqua county, N. Y., where they 
lived until 1836, at which time they migrated to Jamestown. Grant Co., Wis.  
Here Mr. Paterson undertook the clearing of a large tract of wild land, and upon 
it he passed his life until within two years of his demise, when he retired from 
the farm and removed to the village of Jamestown, where he died in August, 1874.

The first wife of our subject died Nov. 1, 1847, and his second marriage was to 
Mrs. Catherine Davis, whose death occurred several years prior to that of her 
husband.  By the first marriage he became the father of eight children, only two 
of whom are living: Jane, Mrs. Sheffield; and George, who is a resident of 
Albany, Oregon. The deceased were: David B., Mrs. Betsey Ann Bowmer, Mrs. 
Charlotte Benton, Mrs. Martha Jones, Mrs. Lucy Justis, and Norman, the youngest 
of family.

During his long and worthy life our subject was a prominent citizen, for several 
years was chairman of the board of supervisors, and also for a long term of 
years was a justice of the peace.  In early life he was a Whig, and later became 
a stanch Republican.